Console table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Painted softwood, parcel-gilding, mirror glass
Measurements
81 x 118 x 62 cm
Place of origin
Italy, Northern
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206648
Summary
A painted and parcel-gilt console table, North Italian, mid-18th century. The wooden top painted to simulate grey-veined marble and with moulded edge above shaped friezes carved in low relief with cartouches, lattice-work and flowers on stalks; the central apron with a cartouche framing a piece of mirror glass. Raised on a pair of cabriole legs carved with acanthus and scrolls and foliage, and each with an oval of mirror glass, and terminating in foliate scroll feet.
Provenance
Visible in a photograph of the Drawing Room in the South Front published by Country Life on 7th December 1967. Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.
References
Hussey, 1967: Christopher Hussey. “Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire - II” Country Life 7 December 1967, 1466 - 1471, 1468, Figure 6